| Moths of North Dakota |
Glyphipterigidae: Glyphipteriginae |
Diploschizia impigritella (Clemens 1863)
| Common name: listed here as ‘Yellow-nut sedge moth.’ Hodges #: 2346. Identification: 3.2 mm, fw with five white crescents along costal margin, a large crescent at mid-point of inner margin; hw with vein M3 absent. Proboscis lacking scales. Similar tortricids have roughened vestiture on the meso-tibiae. Similar species: 2341, 2225. Distribution: southern Canada and United States east of Great Plains, also Pacific coast. Host: Larvae bore in stems and leaf sheaths of Cyperus esculentus L.– Yellow-nut sedge.
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ND, Ransom Co., West A allotment, Sheyenne Natl. grasslands, calcareous fen, nectaring on Lactuca sp. 26- VIII- 1999, coll. G. Fauske.
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